Captain Fanshawe's hard-hitting _Namur_, a 90-gun ship, followed the _Formidable_; then came Inglis's _St. Albans_, a 64; Cornwallis's _Canada_, one of the deadliest fighting 74's in Rodney's fleet; Dumaresq's _Repulse_, another 64, manned by a smart set of Guernsey lads; and Nicholas Charrington's 74, the _Ajax_. One after the other these all filed close past the helpless crowd of panic-stricken Frenchmen, firing into them fast and furiously. Each one, at the same time, passed close and fired into the luckless _Glorieux_ on the farther side,--still quivering after the last tremendous salvo from, to use Captain Douglas's own expression, 'the _Formidable's_ thundering starboard side,' racked through and through by that awful tornado of 8 cwts. of solid shot, lying like a log on the water, a bare hulk under a mass of splintered spars, torn canvas and tangled rigging. Captain Inglis of the _St. Albans_ was watching her and made note of what he saw. The _Glorieux_, said Inglis, did not return a single shot to the _St. Albans'_ broadside, although the rags of her colours could be seen still fluttering defiantly from where they had been nailed to the stump of the mizen mast. Only one man was to be seen on deck, on the poop, and he, poor fellow, dropped to the _St. Albans'_ marines. After his ship had passed the _Glorieux_ Inglis looked back at her and watched the _Canada_ give her a staggering broadside. 'From the dust, the pieces of timber, and the smoke which flew to a great distance from the side opposite of that where she had received the blow, it seemed as if the ship (literally speaking) had been blown out of the water, and as if the whole of the mass had been driven to windward'! With the smashing of the French centre the fate of the day was settled. The end might be some hours off--as it was in fact,--but from now onwards it was plainly in sight. 'From this moment,' says Blane, 'victory declared itself. All was disorder and confusion throughout the enemy's fleet from end to end.'